Pino Palladino's solo album

[BassAgent 561]

So Pino Palladino's releasing a solo album in March, and he has released the first single last week, it's called "Just Wrong", here's the studio version:

But today, a live version of that composition surfaced on the YouTubes. Pino on his fretless Stingray with Blake Mills and Sem Gendel. And I can't express how much I love Pino's playing in this video. Look at those HUGE hands. Listen to how he handles harmonics. Check out the brilliant arrangement, both in composition and sounds between the musicians. What an amazing piece of art.

 

[bassist_lewis 92]

Saving this for my lunch break...

[ezbass 3,234]

An interesting array of amplification there, certainly devoid of any bass specific ones I could make out.

The size of Pino’s hands is incredible, easily 50% bigger than mine, probably more. It does seem that there are more virtuoso bass and guitar players with large hands and long, delicate fingers, than those with a bunch of sausages.

[Steve Browning 1,744]

My friend, who is Pete Townsend's guitar tech recounted how Pino did all the bass parts, on the last Who album, through his old Fender Deluxe.

[BassAgent 561]

15 minutes ago, ezbass said:

An interesting array of amplification there, certainly devoid of any bass specific ones I could make out.

The size of Pino’s hands is incredible, easily 50% bigger than mine, probably more. It does seem that there are more virtuoso bass and guitar players with large hands and long, delicate fingers, than those with a bunch of sausages.

I think the Deluxe is Pino's amp here (as @Steve Browning points out), the Titano (Magnatone subbrand) might also add, but I think that belongs to Blake Mills. The tweed Fender and the small Kalamazoo amps are probably guitar or sax amps.

[petebassist 249]

Love this. Anyone happen to know what semi-acoustic bass is used on the studio version? Nice tone.

[BassAgent 561]

I don't know, but Blake Mills has announced they're going to release *something* every Wednesday until March 12th, so quite a chance you'll see the acoustic.

[Rich 5,987]

Pino's hands reminded me of someone, but I couldn't remember who. Then it dawned on me...

[DaveFry 1,928]

Interesting to see a berimbau mentioned .
We have a large Portuguese community here and a couple of summers back a Capoeira group used to meet in the park at weekends . One guy was playing a berimbau so I asked a Portuguese guitarist friend of mine about it and he explained that it was common to make your own out of driftwood from the Brazilian beach , fencing wire , a coffee tin and pebbles .
The next time I visited him he had made one from a garden cane , a guitar string , a margarine tub ,cable ties , a Kinder egg with rice in for the shaker , a chopstick and a 50pence piece so I had a play on it . Fascinating .

[Stingray5 519]

Really interesting to see/hear both these versions. I love the arrangement of the original and (from within my own frame of reference), I couldn't help feeling that there was a certain amount of influence from Claus Ogerman. I'm also with @DaveFry re the Berimbau. I've always loved Latin percussion instruments and have been mightily impressed seeing the likes of Airto Moreira and Nana Vasconcelos, in particular, work their magic on these.

[Steve Browning 1,744]

2 hours ago, BassAgent said:

I think the Deluxe is Pino's amp here (as @Steve Browning points out), the Titano (Magnatone subbrand) might also add, but I think that belongs to Blake Mills. The tweed Fender and the small Kalamazoo amps are probably guitar or sax amps.

Sorry. The Deluxe belongs to my friend.

[Old Man Riva 702]

3 hours ago, BassAgent said:

So Pino Palladino's releasing a solo album in March, and he has released the first single last week, it's called "Just Wrong", here's the studio version:

But today, a live version of that composition surfaced on the YouTubes. Pino on his fretless Stingray with Blake Mills and Sem Gendel. And I can't express how much I love Pino's playing in this video. Look at those HUGE hands. Listen to how he handles harmonics. Check out the brilliant arrangement, both in composition and sounds between the musicians. What an amazing piece of art.

 

Love that! (live performance). Thank you so much for posting/sharing...

Edited February 3 by Old Man Riva

[BassAgent 561]

26 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Sorry. The Deluxe belongs to my friend.

Oh yes but I meant that's probably the amp Pino plays through in this video

[Rich 5,987]

1 hour ago, DaveFry said:

a garden cane, a guitar string, a margarine tub, cable ties, a Kinder egg with rice in, a chopstick and a 50 pence piece 

"...and today on Ready Steady Cook..."

[EJWW 72]

Just beautiful.

The camerawork was atrocious though, why is it necessary to zoom in on eyeballs and feet?

[BassAgent 561]

Well, uhm, because...ehm....yeah.

[Stub Mandrel 10,171]

6 hours ago, ezbass said:

An interesting array of amplification there, certainly devoid of any bass specific ones I could make out.

The size of Pino’s hands is incredible, easily 50% bigger than mine, probably more. It does seem that there are more virtuoso bass and guitar players with large hands and long, delicate fingers, than those with a bunch of sausages.

I'm sure he's got an  extra set of joints in his fingers 🤣

[Rich 5,987]

On 03/02/2021 at 14:23, EJWW said:

Just beautiful.

The camerawork was atrocious though, why is it necessary to zoom in on eyeballs and feet?

Philistine. It's art, innit?

[Graham56 106]

A drink placed on top of an amp? I've had many serious altercations with people (band mates, friends or just drunken punters) about this...!

[ped 6,849]

There comes a time when a musician gets so good that they go over the edge and start playing with odd instruments. Like when Dave Weckl started using bongos. I think this is a good example of pushing the envelope too far. It’s not for me!

[Frank Blank 10,278]

3 minutes ago, ped said:

 I think this is a good example of pushing the envelope too far. It’s not for me!

The envelope is a difficult instrument to keep in check, particularly played in the 'push' style.

[ped 6,849]

2 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

The envelope is a difficult instrument to keep in check, particularly played in the 'push' style.

Easy if you have an envelope filter 

[Frank Blank 10,278]

Just now, ped said:

Easy if you have an envelope filter 

Or have had advanced tutoring at the sorting office.

[Dad3353 8,999]

He's just putting his stamp on it. 

[ezbass 3,234]

Puns? So soon? Frankly, I’m disappointed.